Grover Norquist Quotes


"We want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP over the next 25 years. We want to reduce the number of people depending on government so there is more autonomy and more free citizens."
- Grover Norquist
(Related: Government, People, Want, Years)

"The statists want to control the economy."
- Grover Norquist
(Related: Control, Economy, Want)

"My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."
- Grover Norquist
(Related: Government, Goal, Years)

"Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun."
- Grover Norquist
(Related: Time, Tax, Interest, Taxes, Welfare)

"Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore."
- Grover Norquist
(Related: Being, Dress)

"Obsessions turn people off."
- Grover Norquist
(Related: People, Obsessions)

"Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time."
- Grover Norquist
(Related: Politics, Time, Practice)